Blender

Winston Samuel Aquino Zabala contacted me after watching my first introduction BlenderCAM tutorial video. He asked if I can help him on how to generate CNC paths for his cool drone project. He wants to create carbon fiber molds out of aluminum.

I agreed to take a look and make a tutorial of the process for all BlenderCAM users.

Since we have a new seminarweek coming up at ETH D-Arch Raplab, I am researching nice simple techniques for our students to quickly learn Blender. Here a little example on how to unwrap a cube, mark seams, animate and render the scene.

Two weeks ago I have finished the assembly of our Inventables X-Carve at ETH raplab. Since we are super busy at the moment giving workshop introductions to our wood and digital workshop I had no time yet to edit and upload the video…until now 🙂 Enjoy the little stop motion movie.

I still have to spend more time with the mill as soon as I have more time. I tested it using BlenderCAM and Chilipeppr, it went ok but some things responded a bit wonky in Chilipeppr. I also want to mount a Makita router to get more power…

Nikitron wrote me that there are several scripted node presets available that you can access through the properties menu. The presets contain Python scripts from Nikitron, Elfnor, Zeffii, Ly and Ko. In this video I show how to access them.